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Victor Lemonte Wooten was born on September 11, 1964 in Mountain Home, Idaho and was the youngest of the five Wooten Brothers; Regi, Roy, Rudy and Joseph, all of whom are musicians. Regi began to teach him to play bass when he was two, and by the age of six was performing with his brothers in their family band, The Wooten Brothers Band.  As a United States Air Force family, they moved around a lot when he was very young, but the family finally settled in the Warwick Lawns neighborhood of Newport News, Virginia in 1972.

While in high school, he and his brothers played in the country music venue at Busch Gardens theme park in Williamsburg, Virginia, Graduating from Denbigh High School in 1982, by 1987 Victor was traveling to Nashville, Tennessee to visit friends that he made at the theme park, one of whom was a studio engineer who introduced him to Béla Fleck, with whom he still collaborates musically.

As an educator Wooten has created a music program called Bass/Nature camp that has since expanded into the Victor Wooten Center for Music and Nature and now includes all instruments. All of his camps are held at his location called Wooten Woods which is a 147 acre retreat center located in Only, Tennessee, outside of Nashville. He also co-leads the Victor Wooten/Berklee Summer Bass Workshop at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. He collaborates with Berklee Bass Dept. chair, Steve Bailey and the two bassists have been teaching together since the early 1990s.

He has been featured on the cover of Making Music Magazine, has won the “Bass Player of the Year” award from Bass Player magazine three times, is the first to win the award more than once, and was named #10 in the “Top 10 Bassists of All Time” by Rolling Stone. As a leader he has recorded ten albums, another seven with various groups and with Béla Fleck , fourteen. He has authored a novel titled “The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music” and has a sequel in the making. Bassist, composer, author, producer, educator, and five-time Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten, who has recorded an album titled SMV with  Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller, continues to compose, perform and record.

 

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DECHTER | FRANK | SEGIEL | SHAW QUARTET

The quartet frequently performs live at prominent jazz venues like The Baked Potato in Studio City, California, often collaborating with special guest horn players and saxophonists. Guitarist Graham Dechter is known for his work with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and upright bassist Alex Frank is best known for his work with Jeff Goldblum’s Mildred Snitzer Orchestra.

The Quartet:
Graham Dechter – Guitar
Alex Frank – Upright Bass
Jordon Segiel – Fender Rhodes
Ryan Shaw – Drums

Cover:
$25.00 + $6.25 fee | 1st Set ~ Inside
$20.00 + fee | 2nd Set ~ Inside
$15.00 + fee ~ Patio Seating | Live Video Concert as patio is not inside the club

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KYLE EASTWOOD

Kyle Eastwood, son of film icon and jazz lover Clint Eastwood, developed a love for both art forms at an early age. He has become a world-renowned bassist (with numerous recordings and tours) and a successful film score composer (“Mystic River,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Gran Torino,” etc.). This week, Kyle will be performing many new songs with his quintet, which will be recorded for a new album at the end of the month.

Personnel
Kyle Eastwood: bass
Quentin Collins: trumpet & bugle
Brandon Allen: saxophone
Andrew McCormack piano
Chris Higginbottom, Ph.D.

Tickets:
Tuesday~Thursday 1st Show: CHF 40 | $49.43 / 2nd Show: CHF 40 | $30.89
Friday~Saturday 1st Show: CHF 40 | $49.43 / 2nd Show: $43.25

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Daily Dose Of Jazz…

Lonnie Plaxico was born on September 4, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois and started playing the bass at age twelve. He turned professional at 14 playing both double bass and bass guitar. His first recording was with his family’s band, and by the time he was twenty he had moved to New York City, where he had stints playing with  Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Junior Cook, and Hank Jones..

In 1978 he won the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award but first came to public attention through his work with the  Wynton Marsalis  group in 1982. Lonnie’s first regular attachment was with Art Blakey‘s Jazz Messengers from 1983–1986, with whom he recorded twelve albums. At the end of his work relationship with Blakey he joined Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition, and stayed with them until 1993. During his tenure with Blakey, in the mid-1980s he joined the M-Base collective and played on the debut-releases of Steve Coleman, Cassandra Wilson, and Greg Osby

Plaxico held the musical director and featured bassist position for Cassandra Wilson for fifteen years and has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists, including Dizzy Gillespie, David Murray, Alice Coltrane, Stanley Turrentine, Andrew Hill, Joe Sample, Abbey Lincoln, Bill Cosby, Lonnie Liston Smith, Ravi Coltrane, Scott Tixier, Barbara Dennerlein, Helen Sung and Nina Vidal, among others.

Double bassist Lonnie Plaxico has thirteen albums to his credit as a leader and continues to perform and record.

 

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SAMARA JOY, CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE, MEI SEMONES & FRIENDS

Samara Joy and Christian McBride Celebrate Verve’s 70th Anniversary & Mei Semones & Friends play the music of Getz/Gilberto | Sparklmami delivers a DJ set. Presented by the Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment.

Performers for this celebration of the label’s 70th anniversary include Samara Joy, a six-time GRAMMY winner and Bronx native, and Christian McBride, a world-class bassist and bandleader, a Juilliard graduate and 11-time GRAMMY winner who has recorded with legends of both the jazz (McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Eddie Palmieri, and more) and pop (Sting, Paul McCartney, Celine Dion) spheres. Also, Mei Semones, an American indie rock musician who writes jazz-influenced songs in both English and Japanese, has invited her own crew of friends including aron!, Liana Flores, and John Roseboro to perform music from Getz/Gilberto, the classic collaborative album by João Gilberto and Stan Getz released on Verve in 1964. Sparklmami will begin the show with a DJ set.

Tickets: Free

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